The plans you have for your business in 2006 will depend on where your business is in the business cycle. You'll have different tactics if it's your first year in business, to someone whose business has matured and who has passed the five-years-in-business mark.

Due to more unnecessary disclosure by the Federal Trade Commission franchising companies must be more vigilant to keep company information out of the hands of international terrorists. With increasing rules of discrimination a franchisor is forced to give vital information to anyone who asks for it. Including a group which supports international terrorism. Of course the FTC just doesn’t get it, they would rather sacrifice American lives and enforce political correctness and require unnecessary disclosure to protect consumers, but if the international terrorists get the information it could be deadly to Americans who are also consumers.